Modern Whore: A Memoir
Photography by Nicole Bazuin
Hardcover
From the publisher's website:
Andrea Werhun’s sex work career gave her
money, freedom, joy, and a lot of dick. A natural performer, she
revelled in the opportunity to invent Mary Ann, her escort counterpart,
and introduce her to men all over the city. She whores, she learns, she
writes it all down, and then, as per a signed document she handed to her
Catholic mother in her early twenties, she quits. To become a stripper.
Andrea
and Nicole revisit the idea of the modern whore, with the enhanced
perspective of Andrea’s experience at the strip club. This new, engorged
edition of the sold-out memoir-cum-art book expands on the original
concept–a series of vignettes exploring the many identities sex workers
adopt in the service of their clients and in the eyes of the public–in
both a literal and literary way. But Andrea doesn’t shy away from the
serious side of sex work, either, exploring the risks sex workers take,
and the rights our culture is constantly taking away from them.
This
series of stories and portraits investigate the many ways we
imagine—and mistake—the modern whore. It’s Playboy if the Playmates were
in charge.
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